S05-E01 - Calls from Beyond
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A phone rings with a voice that should no longer exist.
An email arrives from someone already gone.
A warning comes through static, silence and impossible technology.
This episode explores one of the most emotionally powerful areas of the paranormal: alleged contact from the dead through phones, emails, text messages and other modern devices.
From Mrs Wilson’s mysterious phone call after trying to reach a medium, to Dean Koontz’s unsettling warning call before a terrifying encounter with his father, the episode moves through strange cases where grief, technology and the unexplained appear to meet. It also examines the Windsor Avenue haunting, where messages may have come from a deceased wife — or from something far less comforting — along with the eerie emails linked to Jack Froese, the phone calls after the death of Charles Peck, and actress Ida Lupino’s remarkable accounts of contact from beyond the grave.
Blending personal grief, witness testimony, haunted technology and after-death communication, this episode asks whether our modern devices can sometimes become conduits for something older than the technology itself — and whether, in rare moments, the dead may still find a way to be heard.
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